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Since 2003 the board of SKOGH (Swedish Women and Gender Historians) has moved
to Lund University, Department of History. The new board is trying to get the
organisation more active. In November they arranged the annual national meeting
in Lund with participants from all univerities in Sweden. The theme was Gender
and The New Culture History.
Kari Telste from Norway introduced her antropological study on the famous main
street of Oslo (Karl Johann) in 1900 where young middle class women were walking
on Sundays to show up themselves. The street functioned as a sort of matrimonial
agency for young couples to meet. Karin Jansson presented her doctoral theses
on violence and sexuality in the early modern Swedish culture and Maja Larsson
talked about “Monsters in Medicin” - hermaphrodites, classification
and control in the beginning of 19th Century. In the afternoon Charlotte Tornbjer
gave a lecture on the Swedish royal family as a national symbol and Ulrika Hogersson
introduced her coming Ph D theses on class from a post-class perspective. She
is studying a famous Swedish women's magazine 1900-1910. All introductions were
very good and followed by intersting debates and questions. Then a big party
and wild feminist dances.
Also next annual meeting will be held in Lund, 13-14 November, 2004 and the
theme this year will be historigraphical. “New and old tracks in Gender
history”.
The feminist debate has been very hot in Sweden this springtime. A female journalist
has been attacking gender science as more of a political project than a scholarly
enterprise. Gender scholars are also unreliable according to this journalist.
We have not been able to prove that women are the subordinated sex. At the same
time the mobilisation towards a feminist party is coming up on the agenda. Interesting
coincidence.
And I also have some good news. A lot of interesting theses in Gender history
has been published in 2002 and 2003. The list of the theses in 2003 is coming
in the Fall report. (has not yet been completed)
Solverig Fagerlund: Handel och vandel. Vardagslivets sociala struktur ur ett
kvinnoperspektiv. Helsingborg ca 1680-1709. Lund university 2002. (Summary in
English)
Rosemarie Fiebranz: Jord, linne eller trakol? Genusordning och hushallsstrategier,
Bjuraker 1750-1850, Uppsala university, 2002 (Summary in English)
Oloef Gardarsdottir: Saving the child. Regional, Cultural and Social Aspects
of the Infant Morality Decline in Iceland 1770- 1920. Umea university, 2002.
Marika Hedin: Ett liberalt dilemma. Ernst Beckman, Emilia Broomé,
G H von Kock och den sociala fragan, 1880-1930. Stockholm university, 2002 (Summary
in English)
Karin Hassan Jansson: Kvinnofrid. Synen på valdtakt och konstruktionen
av kon i Sverige 1600-1800. Uppsala university, 2002 (Summary in English)
Roger Klinth: Att gora pappa med barn. Den svenska pappapolitiken 1960-1995,
Linkoping university, 2002. (Summary in English)
Maria Clara Medina: Landless Women, Powerful Men. Gender and Identity in NW
Argentina 1850-1910, Goteborg university, 2002.
Birgitta Plymoth: Fostrande forsorjning. Fattigvard, filantropi och genus i
fabriksstaden Norrkoping 1872-1914. Stockholm university. (Summary in English)
Ingela Schanberg: Genus och utbildning. Ekonomisk-historiska studier i kvinnors
utbildning ca 1870-1970. Lund universtity, 2002. (Summary in English)
Charlotte Tornbjer: Den nationella modern. Moderskap i konstruktioner av svensk
nationell gemenskap under 1900-talets forsta halft, Lund university, 2002. (Summary
in English)
Mattias Tydén: Fran politik till praktik. De svenska steriliseringslagarna
1935-1975, Stockholm university, 2002. (Summary in English)
Stefan Warg: Familjen i gruvmiljo. Migration, giftermalsmonster och fertilitet
i norrbottnisk gruvindustri 1890-1930, Umea university, 2002. (Summary in English)
Compiled by Christina Florin